The Mexico Action Summit convened in
Mexico City, Mexico, from 2-3 June 2003. Approximately 200 participants
representing governments and public agencies, international organizations,
the private sector, academic and research institutions, and
non-governmental organizations (NGOs) attended the meeting, which was
organized by the Monterrey Bridge Coalition and the International Food and
Agricultural Trade Policy Council (IPC). The meeting was held under the
patronage of President of Mexico Vicente Fox and the Mexican Secretariat
of Environment and Natural Resources, the Mexican Secretariat of
Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food, and the
Mexican Secretariat of Social Development.

The Mexico Action Summit is part of
the continuing global momentum for sustainable development, spanning the
UN Millennium Summit, the Doha Development Round, the Monterrey
Conference, the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), the G8 and
the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Cancun Ministerial Conference and
beyond. Participants at the Mexico Action Summit explored how increased
food production to feed the rural poor can be made compatible with natural
resource management and biodiversity stewardship. Participants also
examined how international trade and domestic subsidy policies can be
reformed to make sustainable development possible. The meeting provided an
action plan for cooperation between business, governments, multilateral
institutions and civil society from developing and developed countries,
calling the G8 and other leaders to act now to address hunger and poverty
while protecting and restoring the world’s natural environment for future
generations.